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I bought an off brand micro sd card to expand the memory for my Surface Pro. 64gb.
I wanted to shift my google docs folder over to it, and had some weird confusion from Google Drive because of the way they do their cloud syncing services and also because the Google Drive is also my My Documents folder, which is treated very differently from normal folder's in Windows (you can change the name and stuff, but it must always be located under My Documents, unlike most folders where the path and name are always the same)
Anyway it was screwing up and wouldn't let me totally delete everything off the micro SD card and so I decided to format it. It formatted but then I found that I couldn't reconnect my google drive folder on to the micro SD card because it was exFat and it has to be NTFS for gdrive.
So I tried to format it to NTFS and it wouldn't let me. Just said you couldn't do it.
I did some googling and I found that the problem could be that it's set to read only. I checked that and it is set to read only but I don't know how to change it.
It is not because of the lock on the side being engaged. I assure you. That is the most common explanation in forums given but this micro SD does not, like most micro SD cards, have a lock on the side, nor am I using an adapter to plug it into the computer.
The weird thing is, is even though it keeps saying that it is read only, I can still copy files back and forth on to it. I was thinking it might be a hardware defect (cheap off brand SD memory has burned me in the past) but it seems to function fine as an exFat, it just refuses to format to NTFS.
And the stuff I've read about how to change it from read only don't seem to show up. Websites say you right click properties/security/advanced but when I click the drive properties there is no tab for security.
Hmmmm... any suggestions on what to do?
I wanted to shift my google docs folder over to it, and had some weird confusion from Google Drive because of the way they do their cloud syncing services and also because the Google Drive is also my My Documents folder, which is treated very differently from normal folder's in Windows (you can change the name and stuff, but it must always be located under My Documents, unlike most folders where the path and name are always the same)
Anyway it was screwing up and wouldn't let me totally delete everything off the micro SD card and so I decided to format it. It formatted but then I found that I couldn't reconnect my google drive folder on to the micro SD card because it was exFat and it has to be NTFS for gdrive.
So I tried to format it to NTFS and it wouldn't let me. Just said you couldn't do it.
I did some googling and I found that the problem could be that it's set to read only. I checked that and it is set to read only but I don't know how to change it.
It is not because of the lock on the side being engaged. I assure you. That is the most common explanation in forums given but this micro SD does not, like most micro SD cards, have a lock on the side, nor am I using an adapter to plug it into the computer.
The weird thing is, is even though it keeps saying that it is read only, I can still copy files back and forth on to it. I was thinking it might be a hardware defect (cheap off brand SD memory has burned me in the past) but it seems to function fine as an exFat, it just refuses to format to NTFS.
And the stuff I've read about how to change it from read only don't seem to show up. Websites say you right click properties/security/advanced but when I click the drive properties there is no tab for security.
Hmmmm... any suggestions on what to do?
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